World champion PV Sindhu was the joint most costliest player in the Premier Badminton League(PBL) season 5 auction with a sum of 77 lakh rupees. She was joined by Chinese Taipie player Tai Tzu Ying. Top Indian singes player B. Sai Praneeth was also retained by Bengaluru Raptors for a whooping sum of 32 lakh rupees.
Two notable absentees in the list of players that went under the hammer were- Kidambi Srikanth, who opted out of the tournament to focus more on International tournaments and Saina Nehwal, who is suffering from an injury.
Here is the full list of squads for the PBL season 5.
MUMBAI ROCKETS
1.Pia Zebadiah (17 lakhs)
2. Kim Sa Rang (40 lakhs)
3. Parupalli Kashyap- (43 lakhs)
4.Lee Dong Keun- (30 lakhs)
5. Pranav Jerry Chopra- (6 lakhs)
6. Jessica Pugh- (13 lakhs)
7. Shreyansh Jaiswal- (1 lakh)
8. Shlok Ramachandran- (1 lakh)
9. Shriyanshi Pardeshi– (1.5 lakh)
10. RETAINED PLAYER: Kim Ji Yung (45 lakh)
CHENNAI SUPERSTARZ
1.Kirsty Gilmour- (10 lakhs)
2. Manu Attri- (10 lakhs)
3. Gabrielle Adcock- (20 lakhs)
4. Sanjana Santosh- (2 lakh)
5. Gayatri Gopichand- (2 lakhs)
6. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy – (62 lakhs)
7. Tommy Sugiarto- (41 lakhs)
8. Sankar Muthusamy- (1 lakh)
9. Lakshya Sen- (36 lakhs)
10. K. Sathish Kumar- (1 lakh)
11. RETAINED PLAYER: B. Sumeeth Reddy (11 lakh)
NORTH EASTERN WARRIORS
1.Michelle Li- (20 lakhs)
2.Lee Yong Dae- (44 lakhs)
3.Kim Ha Na- (27 lakhs)
4. Ashmita Chaliha- (3 lakhs)
5. Rutuparna Panda- (1 lakh)
6. Lee Cheuk Yiu- (50 lakhs)
7. Kaushal Dharmamer- (1 lakh)
8. Bodin Isara- (18 lakhs)
9. Krishna Garaga- ( 1 lakh)
10. RETAINED PLAYER: Tanongsak(25 lakh)
AWADHE WARRIORS
1. Ko Sung Hun- (55 lakh)
2. Shin Baek Cheol- (45 lakh)
3. Christinna Pedersen- (15 lakh)
4. Subankar Dey- (7 lakh)
5. Ajay Jayaram- (5 lakh)
6. Ivan Sozonov – (13 lakh)
7. Tanvi Lad- (1 lakh)
8. Wong Win Ki Vincent- (20 lakh)
9. RETAINED PLAYER: Beiwen Zhang (29 lakh)
PUNE 7 ACES
1.Thi Trang Vu- (6 lakh)
2.Hendra Setiawan- (40 lakh)
3. Tse Ting Suet- (30 lakh)
4. Chris Adcock- (32 lakh)
5. Kuhoo Garg- (1 lakh)
6. Mithun Manjunath- (1 lakh)
7. Kazumasa Sakai- (5 lakhs)
8. Rituparna Das- (8 lakhs)
9. Loh Kean Yew – (36 lakhs)
10. M.R. Arjun- (2 lakhs)
11. RETAINED PLAYER: Chirag Shetty (15.5 lakhs)
HYDERABAD HUNTERS
1. Vladimir Ivanov- (14 lakhs)
2. Sourabh Verma- (41 lakhs)
3. Daren Liew- (33 lakhs)
4. Kiran George- (1 lakh)
5. Ruthvika Shivani Gade- (1 lakh)
6. Siki Reddy – (20 lakh)
7. Sean Vendy- (5.75 lakhs)
8. Ben Lane- (6.75 lakhs)
9. RETAINED PLAYER: P.V. Sindhu(77 lakhs)
BENGALURU RAPTORS
1. Eom Hye Won- (25 lakhs)
2. Tai Tzu Ying – (77 lakhs)
3. Brice Leverdez- (21 lakhs)
4.Tak Ching Chang -( 12 lakhs)
5. Arun George- (1 lakh)
6. Chan Peng Soon- (30 lakhs)
7. Ansal Yadav- (1 lakh)
8. Medha Shashidharan- (1 lakh)
9. RETAINED PLAYER: B. Sai Praneeth- (32 lakhs)
